11 Birthdays: A Wish Novel

Author: Wendy Mass

This hilarious novel from award-winning author Wendy Mass is now available in paperback!It’s Amanda’s 11th birthday and she is super excited—after all, 11 is so different from 10. But from the start, everything goes wrong. The worst part of it all is that she and her best friend, Leo, with whom she’s shared every birthday, are on the outs and this will be the first birth….Read More

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